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Starting Oracle Expert

Oracle Expert can be started in two ways:

• standalone

  Double-click on the Oracle Expert icon in the Oracle Enterprise Manager program group. The Oracle Expert Connect Repository dialog box prompts you for the information necessary to connect to the Oracle Enterprise Manager repository, including username, password, and service (sometimes referred to as a connect string).

  If the database container in the tree list is empty, you may need to discover the databases that you are interested in tuning. For information on discovering databases, refer to the Oracle Enterprise Manager Installation Guide.

• launched from Oracle Enterprise Manager

  After starting Oracle Enterprise Manager, select a database from the Navigator in the Oracle Enterprise Manager console, then click the Oracle Expert icon in the toolbar.

Oracle Enterprise Manager maintains a repository where the information collected for your database environment and the results of the analysis are stored. This repository is a part of the Oracle Enterprise Manager repository. Use the Connect Repository dialog box to provide the login information needed to access the repository.

Note: If the Oracle Enterprise Manager repository has not been created, Oracle Expert automatically creates the repository (with user confirmation) at connect time. Similarly, if your repository version differs from the version of Oracle Expert and Oracle Enterprise Manager, the repository will be upgraded automatically.

When you start Oracle Expert for the first time by clicking the OK button in the Connect Repository dialog box, there will be a pause. This occurs while Oracle Expert is loading its default rules into the repository. The status line informs you that Oracle Expert is loading default rules during this process.

You can now begin using Oracle Expert.

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